The all-purpose ART thread!

I'll start off with something I did for my first school; a tiger that was used for printing on t-shirts:

Though it's based on a real photograph of a tiger roaring, I purposefully made it simpler because it was going to be on budget shirts. Going nuts with the detail would have hurt it in the end, I think. This is from 1994 or so.

Oh, and the original mascot was Snoopy. Dunno why they changed it after so many years.

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When I used to manage Blockbuster I made little comics I'd email the staff. Eventually I had about 90 people from the nearby Blockbusters on my 'subscription.' I did about 100 strips. I wasn't very good but here are a few I'm least embarrassed by.

I have a very peculiar taste in art. Here's some pictures of my favorite paintings:

Salvador Dali

Rene Magritte

I also like the oldies, too.

Sebastian Pether - The Eruption of Vesuvius

The Birth of Venus

Jan Van Eyk - The Marriage of Arnofini

I got the opportunity to see another couple favorites of mine in person, Water Lilies by Claude Monet and Young Man in a Black Beret by Rembrant being prime examples.

These are pictures that I took of them.

^(immediately after I took this, I was told that photography of this painting was not allowed. I was lucky!)

Here's the Rembrandt:

There are many other interesting pieces I saw there, (including things by Van Gogh, Jackson Pollack, Leonardo Da Vinci, Gaugin, Salvador Dali, Seurat, Thomas Hart Benton, among many others) so I will upload those eventually, along with some videos on YouTube.

"The other versions will disappear. Even the 35 million tapes of Star Wars out there won’t last more than 30 or 40 years. A hundred years from now, the only version of the movie that anyone will remember will be the DVD version [of the Special Edition], and you’ll be able to project it on a 20’ by 40’ screen with perfect quality. I think it’s the director’s prerogative, not the studio’s to go back and reinvent a movie." - George Lucas